A fisherman was an ordinary fisherman at that time. It was invented by Tao Yuanming to write his ideal society, but he is the clue of the whole paper. He borrowed the novel style and started the story with a fisherman's experience as a clue. The account of time and fisherman's native place is written with confidence and seems to be true. This shortens the psychological distance between readers and works, and introduces readers from the real world to the dreamland of peach blossoms.
The artistic conception of this paper is exquisite, taking the whereabouts of Wuling fisherman as a clue to link reality with ideal realm. The combination of reality and reality is also one of its characteristics. Added a sense of mystery. The language is vivid, concise, meaningful and seemingly understated, but the description in it makes the scenery vivid and fascinating. The content of the article is detailed and slightly focused.
Peach Blossom Garden is one of the representative works of Tao Yuanming, a writer in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is "Preface to Peach Blossom Garden Poetry", which is selected from Tao Yuanming's collection. Based on the whereabouts of Wuling fisherman, this paper links reality with ideal realm, and through the description of peaceful, happy, free and equal life in Peach Blossom Garden, it shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with the real life at that time.
Creation background
Tao Yuanming had the ambition of "helping the poor" when he was young. However, he lived in an era of changing owners in Jin and Song Dynasties. The Eastern Jin Dynasty was extremely corrupt, surrendered blindly to the outside world and settled in a corner of the rivers and lakes. The life of the ruling group is dissolute, civil strife continues, warlords have been fighting for years, and exorbitant taxes and levies have deepened the exploitation and oppression of the people.
In the turbulent era when the country was on the verge of collapse, Tao Yuanming's ambition could not be realized at all. At the same time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty inherited the old system, implemented the door-door system, and protected the aristocratic bureaucratic privileges of aristocratic gentry, resulting in intellectuals from small and medium-sized landlords having no chance to display their talents. A poor man like Tao Yuanming, whose ancestors and fathers only held first-class official positions, had a premature decline in his family. Of course, he was "ambitious and dedicated."
In addition, his personality is honest and frank, honest and honest, and he doesn't want to grovel and cling to the powerful, so he has a sharp contradiction with the dirty and dark real society and has a feeling of being out of place. In the first year of Yixi (405), he resolutely resigned from the Pengze county magistrate who took office only 8 1 day, and finally got rid of the ruler, retired to the countryside and lived in seclusion for a long time.
Although Tao Yuanming is far away in the Jianghu, he still cares about state affairs. In June of the second year of Yuanxi (420), Emperor Wu of Song abolished Emperor Gong Jin as the king of Lingling and changed his title to "Yongchu". In the second year, Emperor Wu of Song conspired to suffocate Gong Jin with a quilt. These can't help but cause waves in Tao Yuanming's thoughts. Starting from the inherent Confucian concept, he became dissatisfied with Emperor Wu of Song's regime and deepened his hatred of the real society.
But he can't change or interfere with this situation, so he has to express his feelings with the help of creation, and create a beautiful realm opposite to the dirty and dark society, in order to entrust his political ideals and good interests. Peach Blossom Garden was written in this context.
The Story of Peach Blossom Garden depicts the peaceful, happy, free and equal life of Peach Blossom Garden, and shows the author's ideal of pursuing a better life and his dissatisfaction with real life.
Tao Yuanming writes poems, and is good at sketching. His style is economical and his language is natural. Peach Blossom Garden also has this artistic style. Although it is a fictional fairyland, writing in a virtual scene by using realistic techniques gives people a sense of reality, as if there is a real person. The full text takes the whereabouts of Wuling fishermen as the main line, and describes three stories like novels: fishing in the stream, Taoyuan fairyland and getting lost again.
The first paragraph vividly reveals a series of psychological activities of Wuling fishermen with four connected words: forgetting, meeting, being different and wanting to be poor. The word "forget" means that he is bent on fishing instead of calculating the distance, and it also implies that he has gone far. It focuses on one and forgets the rest of the mental state, which is similar to the wonderful situation of "Xu Xing does not remember the depth of the mountain". "Sudden Meeting" and "Very Different" take care of each other, writing their amazing expressions of accidentally seeing the peach blossom forest, and also highlighting the beautiful scenery of the peach blossom forest.
The phrase "lush grass and colorful English" is a wonderful pen to write about the scenery. Colorful, beautiful scenery, as if there are bursts of fragrance overflowing from the pen, beautiful language, handy.
The second paragraph first describes the discovery of fairyland in a few words. "When the water is exhausted, you will get mountains", pointing out that you have reached a secluded place; "The mountain has a small mouth and seems to have light", suggesting that this is an unusual place to go. The fisherman's searching eyes and anxious mood are also reflected. After passing through the narrow passage, I wrote "suddenly enlightened", which has a deep charm.
After entering Taoyuan Wonderland, first write down the land, houses, fertile fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry trees, buildings, crows and dogs barking, and everything you see and hear is vivid. Then, from far to near, from scenery to people, it describes the farming, clothing and life of Taoyuan characters, and depicts an ideal picture of pastoral life. Finally, the scene of Taoyuan people meeting fishermen changed from "panic" to "questioning", from warm hospitality to parting advice, which was written sincerely and full of rich flavor of life.
In the third paragraph, it is written that the fisherman is "determined everywhere" on his way back along the road, suggesting that he intends to start again. "I am a satrap, I say so", which is contrary to the advice of Taoyuan people that "the humanity of outsiders is not enough for humanity of outsiders". The satrap's "no way out" and the failure of Liu Ziji's plan are all deliberate plots. I finally found a fairyland, but it was secretly written that Taoyuan people didn't want to be "outsiders" anymore.
For Taoyuan Wonderland, secular people have nothing to look for and no longer care about, but Tao Yuanming himself has never stopped pursuing it. At the end of Peach Blossom Garden Poetry, he revealed his wish to "whisper softly and ask me out". He regards Peach Blossom Garden as a like-minded friend and earnestly hopes to live in Peach Blossom Garden with him.
References:
Taohuayuan-Baidu Encyclopedia